ACA's PaintCare pilot program in Oregon marked its third anniversary in July, and on Sept. 3, PaintCare submitted its annual report for the program to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). The report details all the ...
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Tarkett has expanded its ReStart Recycling and Reclamation Program by adding consolidators to the process. Erv Parent, NRF Distributors, Inc. and Johnson Wholesale Floors with Brumark have joined the program as the first consolidators, ...
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The official manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index is in for August and the numbers are rosy. Sell-siders are happy. China bulls just got one more boost from a lengthening list of comfortable economic figures. “It's a real ...
Tags: Healthy PMI, Medium Firms
Smartphones with screen sizes of 5- to just under 7-inch, colloquially known as phablets, overtook shipments of each of the portable PC and tablet device categories in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) in the second quarter of 2013, according ...
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Best figures in 16 months suggest overall economic situation improving China's manufacturing industry picked up in August to its highest level since May 2012, suggesting a steady improvement of the overall economic condition, official ...
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Vodafone and O2 have begun rolling out 4G [LTE] mobile data services in three UK cities. O2's services currently include London, Leeds and Bradford, while Vodafone is restricting coverage to parts of London for now. Further reading O2 ...
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The exports of carpets from India rose by 14.3 percent year-on-year in July 2013, due to growing demand from the US, China and Latin American markets. During the month, India exports US$ 90 million worth of carpets, compared to exports of ...
The iconic American Ram pick-up truck is now available in right-hand drive for the Australian market – but it doesn’t come cheap. Having just received Australian Design Rule certification, Queensland-based vehicle importer ...
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From mundane 2D devices, integrated cameras in laptops and tablets in the future will change into powerful 3D tools that can sense movement, track emotion, and even monitor reading habits of children, according to Intel. Intel is ...
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Windows 8 may be seeing sluggish demand, but Dell believes its the best OS for business tablets and plans to roll out more products built with the operating system later this year, a senior executive said Tuesday. "The reason that our ...
Tata Motors has embarked on an ambitious strategy that will see its next generation of passenger vehicles elevate the brand from an Indian market niche to a serious player on the global automotive stage. Tata Motors managing director Karl ...
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US based electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Smith Electric Vehicles has signed an agreement with the China based Taikang Technology to establish a joint venture (JV) in Taiwan. The new JV will be responsible for the assembly and ...
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After climbing to a five month high last week, cotton futures suffered a near 10% loss this week with the spot December contract dropping over 900 points to close at 84.08 c/lb. Technicals turned weak after futures prices failed to advance ...
Caustic Soda, a strong metal base with chemical formula of NaOH also known as Lye is one of the world's most usable chemicals and the annual world products of this chemical exceeds 60 million tones. It is an inorganic compound, physically ...
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Absolute Encoders Deliver for Microassembly Cells Amicra Microtechnologies GmbH recently replaced incremental measuring systems with Resolute absolute optical encoders, achieving ±0.5μm accuracy and 1.66 Cpk process capability. ...
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